Case Studies

Resource Category Carriers Purpose
Washington HealthCareCompare Consumer Transparency Website
The Washington HealthCareCompare website is driven by Washington APCD data in an effort to provide information to consumers to shop for medical…
State: Washington
 Consumers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Cost, Quality
Washington APCD Health Measures Dashboards
The WA-APCD health measures dashboards offer publicly available data reports which include a comparison of statewide and Accountable Communities of…
State: Washington
 Consumers, Population Health, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Cost, Quality, Utilization
Vermont’s Community-Oriented All-Payer Medical Home Model Reduces Expenditures and Utilization While Delivering High-Quality Care
Patient-centered medical home programs using different design and implementation strategies are being tested across the United States, and the impact…
State: Vermont
 Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Cost, Quality, Utilization
Vermont’s Community-Oriented All-Payer Medical Home Model Reduces Expenditures and Utilization While Delivering High-Quality Care
This study was published in the national journal "Population Health Management" and evaluates the Vermont Blueprint for Health’s overall…
State: Vermont
 Consumers, Health Reform, Population Health, Researchers Commercial Cost, Quality, Utilization
Vermont Hospital Service Area (HSA) Profiles
The Vermont Blueprint's HSA Profiles contain a broad set of population-based measures based on eligibility and claims data supplied to the state…
State: Vermont
 Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Cost, Quality, Utilization
Utilization in Colorado
Colorado's Center for Improving Value in Healthcare (CIVHC) synthesized data from the All Payer Claims Database (APCD) to map trends in…
State: Colorado
 Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare
Utah Primary Care Spend Calculation Project
The Utah Department of Health, Office of Health Care Statistics (OHCS) produced this primary care spend report for the Utah Academy of Family…
State: Utah
 Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Cost, Quality
Utah Healthscape: Maternity Costs
This Healthscape highlights the median costs for having a baby in Utah. The costs cover routine, uncomplicated care for a mother and baby. Some…
State: Utah
 Consumers Commercial Cost
Utah Health Status Update: Using Clinical Risk Groups to Analyze the Utah All Payer Claims Data
Utah All Payer Claims Database (APCD) uses the 3M Clinical Risk Group (CRG) software to show clinically-meaningful categories using diagnoses,…
State: Utah
 Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid Cost, Utilization
Utah Health Status Update: Initial Diagnosis of Opioid Naive Patients
The Utah Department of Health's September 2017 Health Status Update features significant public health events that occurred in the state. The…
State: Utah
 Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid Cost, Quality, Utilization
Utah Atlas of Healthcare: Making Cents of Utah’s Healthy Population
In October 2010, the Utah Department of Health published this report to highlight to stakeholders what an APCD can do to help them understand the…
State: Utah
 Population Health, Researchers Commercial Cost, Utilization
Using State All-Payer Claims Data to Identify the Active Primary Care Workforce: A Novel Study in Virginia
Our novel method of identifying active physicians with a primary care scope provides a realistic size of the primary care workforce in Virginia,…
State: Virginia
 Providers, Researchers Utilization
Use of New Audio-Only Telemedicine Claim Modifiers
Policymakers at both the state and federal levels face decisions about coverage of audio-only telemedicine amid a dearth of reliable data due to…
State: Washington
 Health Reform, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Quality, Utilization
Trends in Teen Pregnancy Rates for CO Medicaid Population 2009-2014
The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) analyzed Colorado All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) data from 2009-2014 to examine trends in…
State: Colorado
 Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Medicaid Quality
Trends in maternal opioid use disorder and neonatal abstinence syndrome in Maine, 2016-2022
The objective of this study was to estimate trends in maternal opioid use disorder (OUD) and neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in Maine using the…
State: Maine
 Consumers, Insurance Department, Population Health, Researchers Medicaid, Medicare Utilization
Treated Chronic Disease Prevalence and Spending in Minnesota
This report provides estimates of prevalence and attributable spending, as well as projections for future attributable spending for diabetes,…
State: Minnesota
 Population Health Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Cost
Transitions in Health Insurance During the Perinatal Period Among Patients With Continuous Insurance Coverage
Although health insurance continuity is important during the perinatal period to improve birth outcomes and reduce maternal morbidity and mortality,…
State: Massachusetts
 Consumers, Insurance Department, Population Health, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid Utilization
Transitions in health insurance among continuously insured patients with schizophrenia
Changes in health insurance coverage may disrupt access to and continuity of care, even for those who remained insured. Continuity of care is…
State: Massachusetts
 Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Quality, Utilization
Touchpoints - Opportunities to predict and prevent opioid overdose: A cohort study
This study uses data from the Massachusetts APCD. Researchers found found eight touchpoints which were associated with increased risk of fatal opioid…
State: Massachusetts
 Health Reform, Population Health, Researchers Commercial Utilization
Total Cost of Care Multi-State Analysis
To target the high health care expenditures and utilization The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) reported on Colorado's…
State: Colorado
 Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Cost, Utilization